Three Britons among dead in Lisbon streetcar crash
The police were among the 16 people killed in a tram accident in Lisbon.
Portugal is embraced from a tragedy in which Prime Minister Luis Montenegro defines it as one of the largest in its recent history and threatens the trust in the tourism industry, which is connected to the vintage attraction centers such as the 140 -year -old Gloria Funicular Railway in Lisbon.
After determining more corpses, the police updated the death list from each of the five Portuguese citizens, three British, two South Korean, two Canadians and France, Switzerland, Ukraine and one of the United States on Friday.
They published no name or other details. More than 20 people were injured.
Police said that a German citizen assumed to be dead was actually alive in a hospital.
The local media said that a German father had died and that a mother was seriously injured while her three -year -old children were subjected to mild injury.
The German Foreign Ministry said that at least three German citizens are in the hospital.
According to Portugal officials, a preliminary report on the accident will take six weeks to complete.
Although he did not ignore any possible reason, police resources told Publico that there was no daily foul game sign.
The twins of the collapsed car under the 265 -meter slope have been removed and will be examined by experts.
Two cars, each of which can carry about 40 people, climb and land, one helps to pull the other, because the electric motors continues the cable connecting the cable.
This traction cable apparently, according to two experts consulted by Reuters, who were switching through the video, apparently caught the connection under the upper car or near the upper car.
Apparently, the transport could not control the landing, a sharp bend entered very quickly on the street, was driven to the pavement of the parquet stone and hit a building.
Municipal transport company Carris, including monthly and weekly maintenance and daily inspections, including “all maintenance protocols were carried out,” he said.
“We can’t assume that the problem is in the cable,” Pedro Bogas, Carris CEO on Thursday, said. He said.
The line combines the city area near the restaurant square in the city center of Lisbon with Bairro ALTO and carries about three million people a year.
